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Sunny, with a high near 74. Northwest wind 5 to 14 mph.
The rains yesterday almost all missed us! We only had about an inch of rain total in our area. The ground was dry enough to soak the vast majority of that up so we have clear to slightly stained waters for the weekend!
Expect the terrestrial bite to continue to be strong. Hoppers, ants, beetles, they are all the main thing on the menu right now. Tiny olives and tricos are showing up at first and last light too and fish are rising to small parachutes and emergers.
Streamers and mice at night are a great way to catch fish now too.

UPDATE 5:00 PM No more rain tonight! Viroqua received no more rain today, creeks are clear to slightly stained and fishing very well. Cool temps tonight and a week of better temperatures and happy fish ahead starting tomorrow!!

Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 4pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 83. South wind 6 to 13 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Rains last night dropped about half an inch to an inch, a brief but heavy shower passed through the area this morning and we are supposed to see more through the day. We will keep you posted, but if there isn’t a massive gully washer event, the ground is so dry that these rains should set us up for a fantastic weekend of fishing.
Hopper dropper has been the ticket all day long, with a few hatches of micro olives and the trico spinner fall very early in the morning and late in the evening. In cloudy water, fish a worm pattern and leech!

Isolated showers before 10am, then a slight chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 87. West wind 5 to 7 mph. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Chance of rain tonight and into tomorrow, the Friday rain totals keep climbing as weather is pushed around by the hurricane in the south. As scary as the rainfall looks, it is MUCH needed right now. The ground is very dry and much of the rain will be soaked up. We just have to hope it comes in a long rain storm instead of a brief gully washer.
Still quite hot today.

Overall fishing has held up a bit on the smaller creeks and springs. The larger bodies of water are flowing too warm for good fishing. Please use your thermometer!! Anything over 65 will be slow fishing and much higher than that can be lethal to trout.

The trico spinner fall is happening in the morning, but it still just isn’t great this summer. You will have fish rising and bugs falling but it isn’t excellent. Overall terrestrial fishing is the way to go. You can fish a hopper and dropper all day long! If you want to get a bit fancier, toss an ant or beetle under overhanging vegetation or near undercut banks. If you let them sink a bit naturally they are even more successful.
Night time fishing has been good as well. Fish are hitting mice and larger streamers under the cover of darkness.

Sunny, with a high near 92. Heat index values as high as 96. Southwest wind 7 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph.
Hot and sunny again today. Please use your thermometer as things are warming up quickly area wide after a couple of high 90 degree days! Anything over 65 degrees will be slow fishing and can stress trout. A couple more days and we get a cool down. It might be a good idea to stay off the creeks for the next couple of days.